The basic idea is intriguing: take a conventional guitar design and replace the fretboard with a rotating pillar. Perhaps even stick a motor in there to rotate it on command. Each of the strings ...

Right out of the box, the Riffmaster takes after Rock Band's early controllers more than anything produced for Guitar Hero. The gamepad features fake pegs on its headstocks to mimic that of the ...

This is hugely desirable for a guitar neck ... less easy to navigate up and down the fretboard, particularly if you have clammy hands, as they can stick to the gloss finish.

Besides its unique look, this controller comes with a five-fret guitar grip attachment that ... Deadzone Mode," which allows even the slightest stick movements to be tracked.

SRV played Strats with rosewood and maple fingerboards, and although he's more commonly associated with the former, his ...